Victor Hugo (Author)
Victor Hugo was born in Besan , France in 1802. In 1822 he published his first collection of poetry and in the same year, he married his childhood friend, Ad Foucher. In 1831 he published his most famous youthful novel, Notre-Dame de Paris. A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and was exiled from France as a result of his political activities. In 1862, he wrote his longest and greatest novel, Les Mis bles. After his death in 1885, his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panth .
Robert Tombs (Introducer)
Robert Tombs is Professor of History at Cambridge University. His most recent book is The English and Their History (2014).
Christine Donougher (Translator)
Christine Donougher is a freelance translator and editor. She has translated numerous books from French and Italian, and won the 1992 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize for her translation of Sylvie Germain's The Book of Nights.
